To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.

I can't be bothered anymore about giving songs titles.

We are moving into a new world and the old negativity will be left behind. Through the law of cause and effect, we can change the world, one person at a time.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

Seek to mingle gentleness in all your rebukes; bear with the infirmities of others; make allowance for constitutional frailties; never say harsh things, if kind things will do as well.

The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.

They are works of art that can be considered works of art but don't have to be in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.